Tascam CDRW700 CD Player and Recorder

OK, so you don't have wads of cash to blow on gear. That doesn't mean you have to compromise your standards of quality. Stand-alone CD recorders are just about de rigueur for any level studio nowadays. So that means you need one, and not some half-featured consumer rig you can buy at the megastore.

No sir, you need a Tascam box with 24-bit A/D and D/A converters, with Unbalanced, S/PDIF, and lightpipe I/O. Digital gain adjustment and digital processing of fade-in and fade-outs, and sample rate conversion. No sissy-boy consumer deck has this kind of stuff. And we dare you to go and try to find one at the discount warehouse that's already setup to be rack-mountable. We hope that nobody goes and blabs back to Tascam that this thing is supposed to be an entry-level piece.

Seriously, there are those engineers and musicians that are always going to want a piece of hardware to do the job. And even if you have a computer-based studio, this is an elegant and handy rig to have on hand. It's for any studio of any size, or for anybody who wants a quality CD burner.

Now, we should talk about what this deck is NOT. It's not a CD-ROM drive for a computer, sampler, or any other application. You won't be able to burn computer data, or anything else than audio on this machine. But it will play CDs like a regular deck, and will not erase your store-bought CDs. You can use most any blank CD media, but be warned that occasionally, you'll get a brand of CD blank that won't work. Stick to good-quality blanks for the best use.

Features
Ý RCA unbalanced analog I/O
Ý S/PDIF coax and optical digital I/O
Ý 24-bit A/D and D/A converters
Ý Sample Rate Conversion
Ý Adjustable gain on digital I/O
Ý Digital fade in/out from 1 sec to 24 sec
Ý Built-in timer for preset play/record
Ý RAM buffer
Ý Programmable Wireless remote included
Ý Auto or manual track increment
Ý Sync start

Technical Info

Frequency Response
20Hz-20kHz +/- 0.5dB

Recordable Media
CD-R, CD-RW, CD-R-DA, CD-RW-DA

Sample Rate Conversion
32kHz-48kHz Converted to 44.1kHz

Inputs
Analog: RCA unbalanced
Digital: S/PDIF Coaxial, S/PDIF Optical

Outputs
Analog: RCA unbalanced
Digital: S/PDIF Coaxial, S/PDIF Optical

Total Harmonic Distortion
<.004% (1kHz, full scale)

Power Consumption
27W

Dimensions
483 x 98 x 312 mm

Standard Accessories
Wireless Remote